Category: Italian Wine

The villages of Barolo

Get to grips with the villages of Barolo with this handy guide from our Italy Buyer, Davy Żyw. There are officially 11 communes in Barolo.   In a region as complex and complete as Barolo, we are spoiled with many of these great crus. They show their value even more in this vintage. There are […]

Meeting Bibi Graetz

This month, we announced our exclusive partnership with Bibi Graetz. During his latest visit to No.3 St James’s Street, we caught up with Bibi on his latest experiments, the power of terroir, and his legacy of turning Tuscany on its head.  Bibi Graetz is far from your standard Tuscan winemaker. Since founding his eponymous winery […]

Guidalberto: a rising star of Bolgheri

Tenuta San Guido’s Guidalberto is an exceptional wine and a wonderful expression of its legendary Bolgheri terroir. Now, justifiably, it’s being celebrated in its own right, rather than compared to others that came before it. We spoke to Priscilla Incisa della Rochetta, the third-generation face of Tenuta San Guido, about how – and why – […]

Graci: finding an equilibrium on Etna

Etna is an astoundingly unique winemaking region, subject to extremities of climate found nowhere else in the world. Yet – as Alberto Graci explained at our inaugural Sustainability Forum last week – these challenges don’t discourage winemakers here from efforts to protect the environment; rather, they encourage them.  A volcano needs to erupt just once […]